1 John 5:6

New American Bible - revised edition

This is the one who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water alone, but by water and blood. The Spirit is the one that testifies, and the Spirit is truth.

Cross References

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water over you to make you clean; from all your impurities and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Leviticus 17:11

since the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement on the altar for yourselves, because it is the blood as life that makes atonement.

Zechariah 9:11

As for you, by the blood of your covenant, I have freed your prisoners from a waterless pit.

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins.

Matthew 3:16

After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened [for him], and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove [and] coming upon him.

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.

Luke 22:20

And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you. The Betrayal Foretold.

John 14:17

the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 15:26

“When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me.

John 16:13

But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.

John 3:5

Jesus answered, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.

John 4:10

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

John 4:14

but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

John 6:55

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

Acts 8:36

As they traveled along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, there is water. What is to prevent my being baptized?” [

Romans 3:25

whom God set forth as an expiation, through faith, by his blood, to prove his righteousness because of the forgiveness of sins previously committed,

Ephesians 1:7

In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace

Colossians 1:4

for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the holy ones

1 Timothy 3:16

Undeniably great is the mystery of devotion, Who was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed to the Gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory.

Titus 3:5

not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy, he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the holy Spirit,

Hebrews 10:29

Do you not think that a much worse punishment is due the one who has contempt for the Son of God, considers unclean the covenant-blood by which he was consecrated, and insults the spirit of grace?

Hebrews 12:24

and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord,

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

Hebrews 9:7

but the high priest alone goes into the inner one once a year, not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people.

1 Peter 1:2

in the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ: may grace and peace be yours in abundance. Blessing.

1 Peter 3:21

This prefigured baptism, which saves you now. It is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of his Son Jesus cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 4:10

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,

Revelation 5:9

They sang a new hymn: “Worthy are you to receive the scroll and to break open its seals, for you were slain and with your blood you purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue, people and nation.

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, “My lord, you are the one who knows.” He said to me, “These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.